onsdag 3. desember 2014

Jim Croce - I'll Have To Say I Love You In A Song

The American singer/songwriter Jim Croce died at 30 in a plane crash, and should be mentioned far more often than he is when the young dead are counted. He wrote timeless classics such as "Time In A Bottle", "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown", "It Doesn't Have To Be That Way" and this beautiful song, "I'll Have To Say I Love You In A Song". It's the kind of ballad every aspiring songwriter would give an arm, or at least a leg, to come up with. It was released posthumously in December 1973 on his fifth and final album I Got A Name, a little more than two months after his death. Stunning!

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Erik Valebrokk

I was born in 1966, and can therefore no longer be called young and promising, more likely old and in the way. I used to be a music journalist, a despised reviewer of bad albums (especially by the people who made them), an enthusiastically kind reviewer of good albums and amazingly enough liked by a few people. There've been some years since I did any professional music writing, but for some time now I've been doing daily updates on Facebook where I've recommended one song per day.
There are no rules to this exercise. I write about any song that pops into my mind, never taking into account what kind of genre it belongs to, if it's especially hip or not, where it's from, etc.
The one really good thing about not writing professionally about music is that you can listen to exactly what you want, and even more importantly, not listening to things you don't want to. Getting your money from another source than music writing is highly recommended even if you don't get as many free albums as you once did. However, at times I miss doing it, and that's the motivation behind this blog. I hope you'll enjoy it!